971–980 of 1001 posts
In 3 months that ship will still be there and they will have dug a new divert to move the canal around it.
With modern methods and tools they could probably divert a 3 mile section of the canal in less time than it would take to move this ship and its cargo.
I wonder how expensive and complicated it would be to let it there and dig another lane to bypass it.
At that point, you may as well have begun digging a new canal anyways.
Lots of talk about lifting via crane or chopper. And it's not clear that it's possible. I just saw a photo of the rear (side?) Of ship that makes me wonder: how much lateral force would you need? Could you jack a container up an inch and then slide it off?
Fun facts: 1. The owner is Japanese 2. The operator is Taiwanese 3. The flag is Panamanian 4. The cargo is Chinese 5. The insurer is British 6. The crew is Indian 7. The canal is Egyptian and was built with forced labor by the French 8. The dredgers/salvage op managers are Dutch
9. The destination is the Netherlands (Rotterdam). While we're at it, the 1956 Suez canal crisis marked the end of the traditional colonial powers when the USSR threatened to nuke London and Paris if they don't let Egypt regain control of the canal. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/yes-1956-suez-crisi...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It makes you wonder if anyone has an old aircraft carrier they'd be willing to use as a battering ram. Try to hit it towards the bow to dislodge it.
And if that ram breaks you'll not just have a giant container ship stuck there, but a bloody aircraft carrier as well. :D
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I actually don't understand why this isn't the best option right now. The east bank is mostly empty, and the channel is pretty shallow. You could probably construct a 1km detour within a few weeks with relatively low cost. Seems like a good way to hedge the bet of getting it unstuck.
> within a few weeks Haha, no. Just no.
The length of the whole canal is 200km and it took 10 years to build. I don't claim that it's exactly linear, but it sounds reasonable to assume a few weeks for just a 1km segment. The soil is soft and the canal isn't deep.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This was my though, winchers/dozers etc pulling back the angle it went in on a high tide. Of all the solutions suggested this seems the simplest and easiest materials. For anchor points they could easily weld additional steel plates/rings at numerous points on the hull for a many lines spread out. Maybe place some cables under the front section attached to airbags. It would not lift it off the sand but may help with…
Just an order of magnitude viz-a-viz a winch: -- the Ever Given has a mass of ~220,000 tons (2.2e8 kg) -- let us very conservatively assume that it is a homogeneous block, 1/3rd of which is on sand, 2/3rds of which is on water -- the Coulomb coefficient of friction for steel on sand is a very complex function of sand composition and size, but roughly it's about µ=0.5 and F=µR [1] -- For the 2/3rds of the ship that ar…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This was my though, winchers/dozers etc pulling back the angle it went in on a high tide. Of all the solutions suggested this seems the simplest and easiest materials. For anchor points they could easily weld additional steel plates/rings at numerous points on the hull for a many lines spread out. Maybe place some cables under the front section attached to airbags. It would not lift it off the sand but may help with…
Just an order of magnitude viz-a-viz a winch: -- the Ever Given has a mass of ~220,000 tons (2.2e8 kg) -- let us very conservatively assume that it is a homogeneous block, 1/3rd of which is on sand, 2/3rds of which is on water -- the Coulomb coefficient of friction for steel on sand is a very complex function of sand composition and size, but roughly it's about µ=0.5 and F=µR [1] -- For the 2/3rds of the ship that ar…